Job 8:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.

American Standard Version (1901)

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

Common English Bible

for we are only recently here and don’t know because our days on earth are a shadow.

Catholic Public Domain Version

(of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:)

Job 8:9 Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

2 Chronicles 10:6

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

Job 14:1

Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 14:2

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Job 32:7

I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope

Job 8:10

Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But thou, O LORD, shalt abide for ever; And thy memorial unto all generations.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And mine age is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

Psalm 82:5

They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are moved.

Psalm 90:4

For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.